He's so stoned, doesn't even know what he's on about," murmurs Gaz Coombes of Supergrass on the spaced-out ending of "Evening of the Day," as the rest of the band plays congas and indulges in some off-key whistling. "Maybe he should go and lay down."

It's easy to not take Brit-rock quartet Supergrass seriously on their fourth album, Life on Other Planets: Scattered throughout the rest of the disc are chirping birds, bleating sheep, Munchkin choirs, fumbled tambourines and an Elvis imitator. As a matter of fact, American listeners have succeeded in not taking Supergrass seriously since they debuted eight years ago -- or, even worse, haven't paid any attention at all.

Underestimate them at your peril. Supergrass are among the best of a long line of U.K. eccentrics -- stretching from the Kinks to Robyn Hitchcock to the Beta Band -- who make rock music giddy enough to entice the easily bored and preoccupy headphone obsessives for hours. In the glory days of the mid-Nineties Brit-pop explosion, these youths from Oxford first brought their pumped-up, punked-out take on that tradition of eccentricity with a hyper debut single, "Caught by the Fuzz."

source: RollingStone